What is blocking a Samba4 Tech Preview?

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:42:04PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:52:02AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> There currently is an upgrade script that reads in a Samba3 smb.conf
> >> file and the various Samba3 TDB files and writes out the appropriate
> >> Samba4 data files. I guess you'd be using these in upgrades. 
> > Ok.  Does the current packaging use this? :-)

> No, currently it doesn't. I'm a bit unsure if we really want to make the
> samba4 packages direct upgrades from samba, though (ie. calling them just
> "samba" with a version number of 3.9.something), given that a downgrade would
> be downright impossible... This is definitely your call, though; we could
> probably adjust the packaging to match names more properly (giving direct
> upgrades) if there's a desire for it.

Does having them installed under a different package name make it easier for
the user to downgrade?  Isn't the best-case downgrade process in both cases
going to be "uninstall the samba4 version of the package, manually massage
your config back into a usable state (or restore from backup), and install
the samba3 version"?  If so, I see no reason to not begin supporting direct
upgrades (and debugging them).

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:45:28PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > So far, I've been trying to keep the package names distinct from the
> > > official ones, since if I'd messed up things with version numbers, people
> > > wouldn't have been able to upgrade from my packages to more recent
> > > official ones.
> > Fair enough.  I think we should be able to get the version numbers right by
> > the time we upload to experimental, though.
> I'm currently using the following format: 3.9.0+SVN12312-1, does that
> sound sane to you?

As long as we know samba will never reach 3.9.1 before it reaches 4.0, yes.
:)

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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